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Dear Friends,
Wishing you the happiest of holiday seasons and upcoming 2025 New Year!
As 2024 comes to its end we once more turn to you for any change you might be able to spare to help us continue our activities, *this year specifically to continue Saving the DATs!* that risk deterioration if not dealt with quickly. Thanks to your generous support in response to our Giving Tuesday SAVE THE DATs! appeal at the beginning of this month, the first 50 DATs of the Experimental Intermedia archive of its concert recordings (the oldest DATs from the 80s and early 90s) are being transferred to digital files by a trusted sound engineer as you read this... thus preserving their invaluable cultural and historic content for posterity. *There are however some 350 more DATs to go and we still need to raise around $ 6,500.00 to be able to get them all transferred.*
So again, we ask, if you were inspired, challenged or moved by Experimental Intermedia Foundation's programming over the past 50 odd years, or if you performed yourself, or have come to see friends perform, or to see any of your experimental music heroes... we hope you will consider supporting this fundraising effort. Your fully tax-deductible donation of any amount can be crucial for SAVING THE DAT(S) or at least some of the DATs !
You can do this now if you still want to for the 2024 year, or just get an early start for your 2025 donations if you prefer...
Donations can be made through the "Donate" button on the landing page of our website:
https://experimentalintermedia.org (PayPal) or by sending a check by mail.
*An overview of our 2024 year:*
In the very beginning of 2024 our beloved director and curator since the 1980s Phill Niblock passed away leaving a tremendous void for all of us. Nevertheless, Experimental Intermedia's programs have continued into their fifty-first year, under the new artistic directorship of long time curatorial collaborator Katherine Liberovskaya.
This past year Experimental Intermedia Foundation was again able to present artists in several different contexts, bringing new and exciting works into the world.
Our March 2024 Series presented eight in-person evenings of concerts or screenings held at five different New York City locations: Zürcher Gallery, Harvestworks, WhiteBox, Emily Harvey Foundation and ISSUE Project Room. Concerts were by Dave Seidel, Kaffe Matthews, Sarah Bernstein, Lary 7 and William Hooker, and screenings by Joan Jonas, a series of experimental portraits of Phill Niblock by Rina Sherman, Loré Lixenberg, Maurits Wouters and Gilles Paté, as well as the 20th annual Screen Compositions event curated by Katherine Liberovskaya.
The recently completed December 2024 Series had eight concerts or screenings over seven evenings at four New York City venues: Emily Harvey Foundation, Harvestworks, WhiteBox and Zürcher Gallery. Artists presented included Reg Bloor, C. Spencer Yeh, Kevin Ramsay + Yuma Uesaka, Nina Sobell, Zoe Beloff, Jenn Grossman, Ian Douglas-Moore + Dominic Coles, Hans Tammen + Marcus Cummins + Shelley Hirsch.
All events were in-person and simultaneously live-streamed from our website and audio-streamed via Wave Farm's web radio. Video recordings of all the events remain on our website and can be viewed by anyone near or far at any time.
Experimental Intermedia Foundation also assisted in producing the first edition of Phill Niblock's annual winter Solstice concert without Phill at Roulette NYC on December 21st.
In addition, Experimental Intermedia's label XI Records remains active. In 2024 it released a 2-CD set by Matt Rogalsky "Visitations and Revisitations". And we are currently working on a new release by Julian Knowles scheduled to be out in 2025.
In gratitude,
Experimental Intermedia Foundation
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New York, NY, 10013